“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”
Source: Little Women
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Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 296

“There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”
“The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.”
Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 15

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>He is and may be but oh! He is, he is,
This foundling of the infected past, so bright,
So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him
No names. Dismiss him from your images.
The hot of him is purest in the heart. </p

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”

Vol. III, John XX: 24–31, p. 406
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. John (1865–1873)